Classroom Notes Plus, Vol. 28, No. 1, August 2010

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• Classroom Notes Plus, Volume 28, Number 1, August 2010

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  Abstract: Students engage in active learning through strategies such as an interactive word wall, a poetry activity based in rhythm and music, and a reading and discussion exercise that explores the nature of friendship.

• Teaching and Learning Vocabulary with the Interactive Word Wall

  by Janis M. Harmon, Karen D. Wood, and Elizabeth Stewart

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  Abstract: The interactive word wall engages students in active and collaborative word learning.

• “Beautiful” Poetry: Tuning In to the Rhythm of Poetry

  by Frances Chamberlain

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  Abstract: Start the year off with this enjoyable, accessible poetry activity centered on music and rhythm.

• What Is Friendship?—Connecting O. Henry’s “After Twenty Years” to Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

  by Greg Van Nest

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  Abstract: Drawing on insights from their own lives, students explore the concept of friendship in O. Henry’s short story “After Twenty Years” and in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.

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